Quiet Mark is the independent global certification programme founded in 2012 associated with the UK Noise Abatement Society (NAS) the charitable foundation (est.1959) in its 64th year, the only UK national registered charitable foundation whose sole focus is to help stop excessive and unnecessary noise to protect the public and improve the aural environment.
In 1960, recognising that exposure to persistent, unwanted sound was detrimental to human health and wellbeing, productivity and quality of life, NAS founder John Connell OBE lobbied the Noise Abatement Act through the UK Parliament making noise a statutory nuisance for the first time in the UK.
Quiet Mark is the third-generation product certification organisation, founded by John’s daughter Gloria Connell OBE CEO of NAS today and granddaughter Poppy Szkiler CEO of Quiet Mark, sharing the same remit as the NAS to provide a better understand...